Have you found Jesus?

Cab driver Steve Smith, of Albany, took this picture of the old greenhouse recently torn down at Engel's Farm that suggests the outline of Jesus or Mary at night when car headlights reflected off it. (Courtesy Steve Smith)

He had been driving passengers to and from Albany International Airport on his late-night runs for years without a hint of divine intervention.

But late one night five years ago, when the headlights of a vehicle traveling along Albany Shaker Road struck the front of a clear plastic greenhouse at Engel’s Farm at just the right angle, an ethereal glow appeared.

Smith peered at the pyramid-shaped illumination. He did a double-take.

He pulled his yellow Dodge Caravan minivan taxi to a stop and began snapping pictures with a small digital camera. The apparition came into focus and Smith saw the head of a robed figure with its arms outstretched near the waist. He was mesmerized. Was it Jesus Christ? The Virgin Mary? An angel?

Smith is not fluent in Roman Catholic iconography. “I’m Jewish,” he said.

“It doesn’t matter if you’re a religious person or not. No matter how you look at it, the image is there. It’s amazing. It’s a spectral entity. Different people see different things in it,” he said. …

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